tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post4130294554232672636..comments2024-01-02T02:18:30.960-08:00Comments on Israel Thrives: A Word with the University of CaliforniaMike L.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06450806807610560873noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-46381191152685378462016-11-02T07:48:03.022-07:002016-11-02T07:48:03.022-07:00To me the issue isn't so much how and who'...To me the issue isn't so much how and who's speech to abridge. I'm not entirely comfortable with fighting censorship with censorship. What concerns me is postmoderism that asserts there are no facts, there is no history there is no reality and anything is subject to contextual debate, assuming there are no firm foundations under one's feet. <br /><br />That to me is far more dangerous. There either is or is no debate that genocide is wrong, for example. Either the mass murder of million of people be they Jews, Africans, Amerindians either IS or IS NOT wrong. And there is no contextualization either way. It leads one to not only bad history but bad people who embrace wrong stupid bad things. For example, Gar Alperovitz asserts that the US involvement in WW2 - at least against Japan was a racist war of oppression by US, not them. They were innocent and our decision to nuke them underlines our inherent racism.<br /><br />This is so insanely wrong it's almost a new art form. The problem isn't the he's allowed to write and say this it's that this level of stupefying lunacy is given credence. Similarly, if the answer to any argument against the left is 'you're a racist!' that's one thing. I am always free to shrug and walk away and not spend another erg of effort pondering the monkey in a cheap suit who spouts human sounding crazy noises. But when there's a horde of fellow thinking crazy monkeys with a rock in one hand and a lawsuit in another - that's when things go horribly wrong. <br /><br />That's our failure. We developed a generation of glint eyed zealot maniac fools. We recreated the Great Leap Forward. We created a mass movement of privileged dullards waving their little red/green/orange/black books over their heads screaming for the deaths of their parents. That's on us. Empress Trudyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06073538968722986065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6579213173749170024.post-81839485849713185792016-11-02T00:12:16.526-07:002016-11-02T00:12:16.526-07:00"We object, however, when faculty members use..."We object, however, when faculty members use their university positions and taxpayer resources to recruit for an antisemitic political movement, indoctrinate their students to support the elimination of the Jewish state, or allow their colleagues to do so. "<br />Yes, Universities should not be in the business of recruiting Nazis from their student pool. And they certainly shouldn't use the classroom to tell lies, as is the case with “Palestine: A Settler-Colonial Analysis." Telling lies about the history of the Land of Israel, the founding of the State of Israel, the Jewish People, and the supposed indigeneity of an Arab "Palestinian people" is academic malpractice. JeffwithaJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07073609950380822171noreply@blogger.com